Unverified Commit 6898131b authored by teor's avatar teor
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doc: Improve port flags in man page 

Explain that:
* most flags default to off
* flags that default to on are specified

Document PreferIPv6Automap in its "No" form, because it's on by
default.

Cleanup after 32637.
parent bf2a399f

doc/tor.1.txt

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@@ -1703,7 +1703,9 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if 
    connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for

    you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind

    to multiple addresses/ports. If a unix domain socket is used, you may

    quote the path using standard C escape sequences.

    quote the path using standard C escape sequences. Most flags are off by

    default, except where specified. Flags that are on by default can be

    disabled by putting "No" before the flag name.

    (Default: 9050) +

     +

        NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address
@@ -1802,11 +1804,11 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if 
    **UseDNSCache**;;

        Tells the client to use any cached DNS answers we have when making

        requests via this connection.

    **PreferIPv6Automap**;;

    **NoPreferIPv6Automap**;;

        When serving a hostname lookup request on this port that

        should get automapped (according to AutomapHostsOnResolve),

        if we could return either an IPv4 or an IPv6 answer, prefer

        an IPv6 answer. (On by default.)

        an IPv4 answer. (Tor prefers IPv6 by default.)

    **PreferSOCKSNoAuth**;;

        Ordinarily, when an application offers both "username/password

        authentication" and "no authentication" to Tor via SOCKS5, Tor